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Packages of Care for Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Prince; M.J.; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa, et al. PLOS Medicine (2009) CC

November 3, 2009https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000176 PLoS Med 6(11): e1000176. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000176

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OCHA Policy Brief on Gendered Drivers, Risks and Impacts of Food Insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

It is widely understood that the food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing and most neglected crises. It lacks sufficient global focus, resources and urgency. As in so many crises, women and girls are disproportionately affected and shoulder t...he consequences of protracted neglect, with unconscionable impacts on their safety, life chances and agency. Gaining a holistic view of the gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is difficult. This is due to a lack of data and prioritization, and the large geographical and socioeconomic terrain covered by both regions. However, what we do know about this crisis is more than enough to urgently address the needs of women and girls. An OCHA discussion paper on this topic (which will be published imminently, and from which this policy brief is drawn) found that there is: A strong risk of profound regression in gender equality gains made to date in the countries of concern, including on education, sexual and reproductive health, and the economic independence of women and girls (with knock-on effects on broader humanitarian and development outcomes). An increasing challenge to reverse what must be recognized as a protracted and growing gender-based violence (GBV) emergency in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is protracted, multidimensional and highly gendered, with spiralling impacts on gender equality and food security outcomes. It is driven by interwoven and overlapping factors, including climate change, political instability, conflict, socioeconomic conditions, migration and displacement and, more recently, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Interlinked with these factors are gendered structural drivers of food insecurity, including deeply entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Gendered risks and impacts of food insecurity include alarming limitations on access to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, women’s agency and participation, and dramatic increases in different existing forms of GBV and the emergence of new ones. Recognition of such gendered dimensions of food insecurity and of the need for a multisectoral approach in the response is key to addressing the crisis, along-side sustained commitment and adequate allocation of resources. This policy brief draws out key findings from the OCHA discussion paper on this topic, which includes a desk review of studies, assessments and reports, and interviews with local women’s organizations on the front lines of the food insecurity crisis in communities across both regions. Below are the most pressing gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity (not in order of priority), as well as key gaps in the current humanitarian response to food insecurity, and recommendations to take forward. more

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A Crisis Within a Crisis: Venezuela and COVID-19

Van PraagO.; and C.J. Arnson (2020) CC

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Nurturing care practice guide: strengthening nurturing care through health and nutrition services

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This Guide responds to requests from practitioners and country teams who have learned about the Nurturing care framework and want to understand how to adapt health and nutrition services to be supportive of nurturing care and strengthen caregivers’ capacity.

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Access to Cancer Therapeutics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ruff, P.; Sana-Al-Sukhun, C. Blanchard, et al. (2016) C2

2016 ASCO EDUCATIONAL BOOK | asco.org/edbo

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Regional competency assessment tool for midwifery educators and midwives

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2021) C_WHO

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Strengthening Pre-service Pharmacy Training on Rational Medicine Use and Antimicrobial Resistance

Mohan P. Joshi Malaïka Ludman Dan Kibuule, et al. USAID; SIAPS; Univ. Namibia (2014) C1

Curriculum reform efforts to enhance training on rational medicine use (RMU) and AMR should pay particular attention to ensuring that the right topics are integrated and the right teaching-learning methodologies are adopted.

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Delivering Results for Children 2016: Programme of Cooperation between the Government of the Union of Myanmar and UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2016)

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Access to NCD medicines: emergent issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and key structural factors
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in the treatment and care of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This report examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to NCD medicines, and the policies and strategies implemented by countries and health sys... more

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Access to NCD medicines: emergent issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and key structural factors 2023

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

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Protect the Progress: Rise, Refocus, Recover - 2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

UNICEF, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children.

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What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings

Mike Wessells Save the Children (2008) CC

How to respond to, mitigate, and prevent risks to children’s protection and well-being is a profound, if unanswered, question. Practitioners agree that it is necessary to develop or strengthen protective factors at multiple levels, such as the family, community, and national levels.

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WHO framework for meaningful engagement of people living with noncommunicable diseases, and mental health and neurological conditions

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The overall objective of the framework is to support WHO and Members States in meaningful engagement of people living with NCDs, and mental health and neurological conditions to co-create and enhance related policies, programmes and services. This framework will contribute to advancing understanding... more

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Antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region: current status and roadmap for action

Essack S.Y., A.T. Desta, R.E. Abotsi et al. Journal of Public Health (2016) C2

The escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic is a global public health threat with extensive health, economic and societal implications. Resistance emerges because of selection pressure from rational and indiscriminate antimicrobial use in human health as well as in the veterinary, agricul... more

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National multi-sectoral integrated strategic plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs): 2014-2022

Ministry of Health, Government of Lesotho (2014) C2

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Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey with an Enhanced Malaria Module and Biomarker, 2011, Final Report

Ghana Statistical Service (2011) C1

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Synchronizing Gender Strategies: A Cooperative Model for Improving Reproductive Health and Transforming Gender Relations

Margaret E. Greene and Andrew Levack IGWG (2010)

This publication makes the case for working with men and women, boys and girls, together in an intentional and mutually reinforcing way that challenges gender norms in the pursuit of improved health and gender equality. In addition to providing a definition for the new concept of gender synchronizat... more

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The Current State of CHW Training Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Cindil Redick& annah Sarah Faich Dini One Million Community Health Workers Campaign | mPowering Frontline Health Workers (2014) C2

What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Do

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Tanzania's Countdown to 2015: an analysis of two decades of progress and gaps for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, to inform priorities for post-2015

Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes, Moke Magoma, Theopista John, et al. (2015) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2015; 3: e396–409. Open Access

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WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis - Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The Updated guidelines on Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents include new recommendations that cover diagnostic approaches for TB, shorter treatment for children with non-severe drug-susceptible TB, a new option for the treatment of TB meningitis, the use of bedaquiline and delama... more

Access to NCD medicines: emergent issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and key structural factors recommended

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis - Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents recommended

Access to NCD medicines: emergent issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and key structural factors
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WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis - Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents
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